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William Boeing

William Edward Boeing 1881-1956 Boeing started his professional life as a lumberman and ended as a real-estate developer and horse breeder, but in between he founded the company that brought forth important breakthroughs in the field of aviation technology and the airline business. The Boeing Airplane Company became one of the signature corporations of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest and dominated the regional economy for most of the twentieth century.
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Sam Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906) Samuel P. Langley was an engineer, architect, draftsman, and scientist who became internationally known as an astrophysicist through his work at several American observatories.
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Iris Thaden

Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905-1979) Louise Thaden, a close friend and competitor of Amelia Earhart, was the first woman to win the Bendix Trophy. Flying a Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing with her copilot Blanche Noyes, Thaden captured the 1936 Bendix race from New York to Los Angeles with a flight that took 14 hours and 55 minutes.
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Nancy Love

Nancy Harkness Love (1914-1976) In 1943 the WAFS merged with the Women's Flying Training Detachment, under the leadership of Jacqueline Cochran, into a new organization called the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). While Cochran was given command of the WASP, Love was put in charge of all ferrying operations. Under her command, female pilots flew almost every military aircraft then in service. In over 12,000 ferry flights her pilots flew 9.2 million miles, with a better safety record than male pilots. For her efforts Love received the Air Medal.
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Chauncey Spencer

Chauncey Edward Spencer (1906-2002) In May 1939, he and fellow aviator Dale Lawrence White, also an NAAA member, flew a rented Lincoln-Paige biplane--with only two flight instruments--on a ten-city tour that started in Chicago and ended in Washington, DC. Realizing that war in Europe was eminent, their aim was to demonstrate the aviation abilities of "negroes" and to lobby Congress for inclusion of people of color in the Civilian Pilot Training Program for the Army Air Corps.
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General Billy Mitchell

WILLIAM LENDRUM "BILLY" MITCHELL (1879-1936) General William "Billy" Mitchell was a strong advocate of military aviation. Beginning his career as a signalman in the Signal Corps, he eventually rose to the position of chief of the Air Service of the American First Army in France during World War I.
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Major General Busch

Maj Gen Andrew Busch, commander of the OO-ALC.
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Major General William E. Creer

Maj. Gen. William Edward Creer flew 170 combat missions against the enemy over continental Europe. Flying the B-17, General Creer participated in 17 bombing missions as a command combat pilot. Immediately following V-E Day the 34th flew mercy missions, dropping huge cargos of foodstuffs to starving thousands in Holland.
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Colonel Higby

Colonel Patrick Higby, commander, 75th ABW
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Airman Kevin Justin, 96 Security Forces Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, and Rich Estrella, Air Force wrestling coach and 2008 Olympic Games coach, take a photo with the "stopsign" 2nd place placque at the FILA Junior National Wrestling tournament April 8 in Las Vegas.
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Airman Kevin Justin, 96 Security Forces Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, looks at his opponents who is preparing to start the partera position during the FILA Junior National Wrestling tournament April 8 in Las Vegas.
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Airman Kevin Justin, 96 Security Forces Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, prepares to front headlock one of his opponents during the FILA Junior National Wrestling tournament April 8 in Las Vegas.
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Airman Kevin Justin, 96 Security Forces Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, clinches with one of his opponents during the FILA Junior National Wrestling tournament April 8 in Las Vegas.
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Lt. Col. Stewart

Lt. Col. John Stewart, 519th Combat Sustainment Squadron vice director, takes a photo with Malik during one of the weekly humanitarian missions performed by the coalition. The humanitarian missions provide school supplies, blankets, clothing and food to local villages and schools in their respective area of responsibility.
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Lorenz

General Stephen R. Lorenz is the Air Education and Training Command commander.
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Hoffman

General Donald Hoffman, Air Force Material Command commander, sits down for an intervew with Airman 1st Class Robby Hedrick during his immersion visit to Hill Air Force Base Feb. 3.
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Hoffman

General Donald Hoffman, Air Force Material Command commander, and Jackie Hoffman experience going through a personnel deployment line during their immersion visit to Hill Air Force Base Feb. 3.
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Goldstone

Col. Gary Goldstone is the 375th Airlift Wing commander at Scott Air Force Base, Ill.
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STEP

Col. Scott Dennis, 388th Fighter Wing Commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Kenneth Czop, 388th FW command chief, promote Staff Sgt. Maria Badure, 388th Maintenance Operations Squadron Information Manager, to the rank of technical sergeant through the Stripes for Exceptional Performers program Jan. 5.
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